If you’ve been shocked by how much it costs to fill up lately, you have good reason: Gas prices in the Los Angeles region have reached an average of about $4 per gallon for the first time since 2015.
A driver closes the cap after filling up at a Los Angeles gas station on April 9. The average price per gallon in the Los Angeles and Long Beach area increased to $4.069 this week, compared with $3.888 last week.
“I don’t think $4.15 a gallon by next week would be out of the extraordinary,” said Dan McTeague, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, a fuel-tracking website that has calculated a 70-cent increase in the past month alone. “This may be longer than expected and I wouldn’t look for any short-term relief.”
“When you have unplanned issues crop up on top, that creates a very tight supply situation, and so that’s what we’re dealing with right now,” said Marie Montgomery, spokeswoman for AAA of Southern California. “The thing that’s going to relieve this is when we see some of these planned maintenance issues start to resolve themselves and when things are going back online.”
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